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Deuteronomy 20:16 New International Version (NIV)
16 However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.

37] Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. [38] This is the first and great commandment. [39] And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. [40] On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

How could the same God SAY both of these things

does this mean that God has schizophrenia

m16566 7 Apr 27
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The question answers itself.

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Because it's all bullshit lol

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gods were invented by the superstitious. Religions were invented to control others especailly women to keep them like slaves to men. It is all crap nothing real about them.

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It means that lots of people got their sticky mitts and wrote whatever would influence the people for political advantage at the time. The Laws are pretty much Babylonian and don’t pre-empt the gospel authors 600 years later. If you put the philosophy of the Gospels into context there is an attempt to undo the old Law wth a new direction.

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Nah, this means a dude wrote one chapter while he was mad and one while he was feeling deep, its pretty typical when you're transcribing a voice in your head, maybe they were schizophrenic since they though they had a god in their head?

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Just two comments.

  1. history is written by the winners and the Jews were sometimes successful in invading rival tribal territories and killing the people so that they could expand the land they occupied.
  2. Jesus was a Jew and whoever put the words in his mouth knew the Jewish history.

It was probably the Romans, they needed to quell the Jews how better than to give them what they were looking for messiah but instead of having a war one you could have a peaceful one

@m16566 And what did the Romans ever do for us (apologies to Monty Python)

@Moravian The viaduct, sanitation!

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Who is this "God" you speak of?

The god of Israel Yahweh
didn't you see the Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner

@m16566 Which one was Yahweh? Or was that the man behind the curtain?

@m16566
Nope. Doesn't ring a bell. I never saw 10 Commandments, and all I ever learned in Catholic Catechism was how to lie about never lying or stealing.

It was a good movie I recommend it, I also saw The Wizard of Oz

as an atheist I have to recognize that I live in the judeo Christian Society,

I can choose to accept it all the time I'm snickering down my sleeve looking how stupid they are.

to your point about Catholicism. when I had to go see the priest about being confirmed I argued that there was no God and that death was an oblivion. the priests came back and told my mother but I was not yet mature enough to be confirm.

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Yup lol

bobwjr Level 10 Apr 27, 2019
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What God Wants, Part I
Roger Waters

What God wants God gets God help us all
What God wants God gets
The kid in the corner looked at the priest
And fingered his pale blue Japanese guitar

The priest said
God wants goodness
God wants light
God wants mayhem
God wants a clean fight

What God wants God gets
Don't look so surprised
It's only dogma

The alien prophet cried
The beetle and the springbok
Took the Bible from its hook
The monkey in the corner
Wrote the lesson in his book

What God wants God gets God help us all
God wants peace
God wants war
God wants famine
God wants chain stores

What God wants God gets
God wants sedition
God wants sex
God wants freedom
God wants semtex

What God wants God gets
Don't look so surprised
I'm only joking
The alien comic cried
The jackass and hyena

Took the feather from its hook
The monkey in the corner
Wrote the joke down in his book

What God wants God gets
God wants boarders
God wants crack
God wants rainfall
God wants wetbacks

What God wants God gets
God wants voodoo
God wants shrines
God wants law

God wants organized crime
God wants crusade
God wants jihad
God wants good

God wants bad
What God wants God gets

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The Bible makes no sense, but for some it’s interesting literature I guess. I prefer Hindu scriptures.

Nothing written down is worth stewing over in hatred and disdain. Moment by moment awareness is where it’s at!

I agree with you about being in the moment I have been studying Buddhism for a few years for the record I don't believe in any of the Supernatural part of it. but I do believe in the idea of self-awareness being in the moment meditation

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Here's a snippet of William Blake's A Vision Of The Last Judgment:

Thinking as I do that the Creator of this World is a very Cruel Being
& being a Worshipper of Christ
I cannot help saying the Son O how unlike the Father
First God Almighty comes with a Thump on the Head
Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it

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side note that doesn't really answer your question (but i thought i should mention it): the disorder you wish to mention is not schizophrenia but dissociative identity disorder, once called multiple personality disorder and probably due for another name change in the future because for some reason that always happens.

to answer your actual question: yeah, the bibles are inconsistent. note that you mentioned bits of two different bibles. the quotation from deuteronomy is out of context (the context doesn't help that much but is interesting so i link it here, and please note that this is a direct translation from hebrew and did not pass through the hands of emperors, popes or kings): [mechon-mamre.org] meanwhile, yes, that portion of the hebrew bible is brutal, dealing with war. of course that's people, not a fictional skydaddy, making that recommendation for how to treat conquered people. i know you know that but are presenting this as god's words because you want to make a point.

i cannot help you with regard to the chrisrian bible since i have never been christian and have no deep knowledge of that particular bible. i do know that if jesus existed (maybe and maybe not) he was jewish, so i suppose that jesus, even as a fictional character, would be well familiar with deuteronomy.

meanwhile, one does not have to be schizoid or dissociative to change one's mind, or to be flighty and inconsistent. if there was a god and he said those things, and if we counted jesus as not only having existed but being a manifestation of the same god quoted in deuteronomy, one could just consider him an untrustworthy son of a bitch, not necessarily mentally ill but just unreliable (at best).

good thing there is no such animal, eh?

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I know that I stripped quotation from Deuteronomy out of context,

I thought I picked out enough my point I didn't want to post that went on AND ON.

thank you

for correcting the schizophrenia versus disassociative personality disorder ..

when you're talking to a True Believer . Of the Bible is the truth and the light and that every word in it must be perfect apologist are often baffled change in personality.

so whenever they can't explain something they simply ignore it

@m16566 true enough. of course you won't find many such here lol. that is why we are here. i only have one true believer with whom i must occasionally interact, but that's only a couple times a year, and she will not be invited to my guy's birthday party in june if she prays jesusly over him like she did last year (my guy is neither atheist nor agnostic he is a mostly secular jew and he is hard of hearing, and i think she counted on his not realizing what she was saying, but i made sure he DID realize!)

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No, "god" isn't schizophrenic, humans are.
You know, since all gods are man-made.

I think the nature of gods changed as people changed but then we were left with a book that couldn’t reconcile the two.

@brentan Fair point. Either way, both are completely useless, gods and "holy" books.

I suppose they are if we focus on where we are now but I love the Bible because it tells us where we were on the way to being who we are.

@brentan We differ greatly on how we see the bible. I also don't think we're any different than we were back when that horrible work of fiction was first written.
It's a horrible work of fiction because the humans that wrote it plagiarized and cannibalized every ancient text that came before it.
It's also loaded with contradictions, misogyny, patriarchy, child-abuse, and all sorts of violence against anyone who doesn't agree with it.
I think humanity would have been FAR better off if christianity, and all it's sects,
had been relegated to the dung heap.
At least ancient Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Norse, mythology was interesting. The abrahamic god was a dick, and acted like it.

I have to say I think we were very different back then. I think we were very different even in the Middle Ages. But it's true the Bible stories were taken from earlier times and don't often fit well with reality. I'm thinking of the silliness of the Samson story set against the reality of the struggle against the Philistines. The Bible is really a story about the myth of nationality. We all have them, my own only goes back to about 1900. I think monotheism could only end up being the Logos personified in Christ but it's easy to say that in hindsight. I think we came to think the way we think through the only means historically and culturally open to us. But why do you think the Bible stories aren't interesting like the 'pagan' stories? I think they stand up pretty well in their own right, silly as they are, and are even more interesting when they are looked at through a psychological lens.

@brentan I think I can't look kindly on anything in the bible because I know too much of it's history. I cannot overlook the atrocities it, and it's believers, have caused.
I have zero respect for it, in all it's incarnations and revisions.
I certainly don't see it as any kind of history book.

@KKGator Fair enough!

@KKGator nice, can you imagine the conversations we'd be having if we all thought of Odin or Zeus as the main god? It would be like worshipping the avengers, fun times! It amazes me that we can read about the old gods in a comic book lol which they consider a fantasy, but they could take the bible and make it into a graphic novel and somehow everyone would still take it seriously.... Blows me away.

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